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  • About
    • Marchione bio
    • Clients
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    • Media
  • Instruments
    • Archtops
      • 15″ Archtop
      • 16″ Archtop
      • 17″ Archtop
      • 18″ Archtop
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      • Baritone Archtop
      • 7-String Archtop
      • Texas
    • Acoustic
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      • OM
      • Classical
      • Flamenco
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      • 59 BURST SEMI
    • Electric
      • Fretless Bass
      • Vintage Tremolo
      • Neck-Through
      • Carve-Top
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      • Violins
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      • Straps
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Home / Instruments / semi-hollow / STANDARD MODEL

STANDARD MODEL

My new semi-hollow body was created with professionalism above all else in mind.

The idea to construct such an instrument was born one evening when I encountered Mike Moreno, a renowned New York based jazz musician, at a private concert. I watched on as he played with his standard semi-hollow body guitar. Clearly impressed with his virtuosic jazz chops, I nonetheless felt that Moreno was robbed of sound quality by his very own instrument.

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 After the show I talked with Moreno and proposed building a semi-hollow body electric guitar with my carefully developed 15″ Mark Whitfield Archtop guitar as the base design. Moreno agreed and months later he and I were both thrilled with the pictured result. The tone and sustain dealt out by this guitar is truly astonishing…

The body of the Standard Semi-hollow guitar is made of gorgeous Italian Alpine Spruce top and an African Mahogany back. Divine. The Premium models are available in a wide variety of woods. These guitars are available with a “modern”, symmetrical f-hole design as pictured but I also make them with the “classic” f-hole design as well.

As with all of my guitars, I never use plywood and always use individual cuts of quality tonewood. This is certainly the choice should you want to move from a generic, playable compromise to a professional instrument.

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If you're interested in owning a Marchione Instrument or would like more information, please feel free to contact me by e-mail or by phone at 713 522 7221.
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